Great Books for PSHE and Citizenship - Books at Random House

Introduction
Personal, social and health education (PSHE) is intended to help pupils ‘lead healthy, confident
and independent lives and to become informed, active, responsible citizens’. It is a subject
that permeates the whole curriculum but it is necessary to explicitly teach PSHE rather than
to let it be filtered through other curriculum areas. Essentially, PSHE involves pupils gaining an
understanding about rights and responsibilities. Each one of us is unique and special,
deserving of care, but we are also part of our wider communities. We all make choices about
both our rights within communities and our responsibilities towards others. What may start
when learning to share with others in the nursery school should be developed into
understanding the part played by every individual in the democratic processes of our
society. The National Curriculum requires teachers to ensure that children are gradually
introduced to the ideas contained in the PSHE curriculum. This booklist is intended to offer
ideas to help primary teachers fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum.
Reading literature often opens our eyes to the everyday concerns of human relationships
and situations. Stories have always been very effective in helping to explain things to the
young so it makes sense, whatever subject you are teaching, to look for books that will help
children understand. The books on this list offer such stories. However, teachers must
remember that, although being used for a particular purpose, first and foremost the books
in this selection are worth reading because they are super books by outstanding authors
and artists.
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Great Books
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Citizenship